Days Spent Doing Too Much of Fucking Nothing
...documents the major events of each day: the triumphs of waking up early, often before dawn, for the coveted packets of sugar that come with breakfast, and a bit later...
Dissecting the Frog
...jokes, who laughs, and who is expected to remain silent). It also calls attention to community tensions — information that is every bit as revealing as uncontested group norms. While...
Woke Up Dead
...tool that’s free to download and requires very little programming foreknowledge. With a simple bit of syntax, the developer can create complex pieces of interactive fiction. Theoretically, any web design...
Coming Out of the Coffin
...2012 should have been Bram Stoker's year. Vampires have arisen everywhere. In time for the centenary of Stoker's death, his immortal creations now command enormous box office: Vampires...
The Journalist and the Suicide
...of daily veteran suicides in 1999 was 20. Since then, it has never come up shy of 17. If anything, the new numbers show improvement over 1999, when veteran suicides...
Three screens, a blinded cyclops, a name
...of hate. It bears an enormous amount in common with Farocki’s films, albeit shot through with a bitter jag of melancholy. There’s a moment in it where Anders recounts a...
Wifey Status
...of two things: that violence is inseparable from domesticity, and that domesticity is glamorous. The lyric “get a little bit suburban and go crazy” has a much different meaning for...
National Disgrace
...even know that huge numbers of young people are arrested daily for possessing a bit of marijuana. There are substantial numbers of wealthy individuals who fund efforts to change gay...
Coweye Burgers and Plastic Malts
...Lunch in the Car -- Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island 06/1973 --From The U.S. National Archives "So to sum up, there is a small bit of the macrocosm inside...
Tender Potatoes
...because Akerman’s films offer an insight into the loneliness and quiet beauty that comes from physical isolation in a time when society increasingly tends to replace the fleshy body with...
The Year of Risk
...coast of some Atlantis beneath we ignore it And keep moving on the icy streets of our Little town. “Be careful,” you say, “That puddle has completely frozen. Take care...
No, You're So Pretty: Compliments, Part I
...here: You, too, can rent "Sex-Based Differences in Compliment Behavior," Language in Society, 1990, pp. 201-224, for 24 hours! With that in mind, it’s easy to see why women might...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...their classification as either parasite or as guest. The first prediction that comes up on a google search for “insect” is “insecticide.” It’s an indication that on the most quotidian...
Love in the Age of Self-Consciousness
...social processes that shape us, dictating their outcome by administering carefully what we feed into them. Modern identity, then, is born of the alienation of auto-surveillance, which makes the self...
#mybodymyhome (ii)
...my lips. Touch every part of my being with your fingertips. Explore my soul and take my breath away. With your tenderness possess my heart. Feed me with love....
Addicted to Failure
...plant vast fields of wheat, I can grow it more efficiently than if I diversify. Then I can feed more people. This logic ignores the complex, circular networks of causality...